[Five months??

In some ways, that seems like it's hardly any time at all. Five months is only a semester long. It's the football season or the basketball season. Fall cheer or spring cheer. That world is behind her now though, she realizes. She may still be wearing her cheerleading outfit, but she's never going back to Hawkins High to be head cheerleader ever again.

So in that aspect, five months also feels like forever. Five months is enough time to forget the sound of her mother's voice yelling in her ear, or to abandon the thought that maybe she has to be perfect all the time. Five months is enough time to reinvent yourself completely.

And in that moment, Chrissy thinks she understands exactly what Jinx had been talking about when she mentioned becoming something different. And she smiles when she gets it, hurrying her way over to the elevator to keep up.]

I'm not sure. What's the playback?

[There's something else on the tip of her tongue, and in the name of not bothering to try and seem so restrained she lets it spill out into the open.]

I'm pretty sure I'd follow you just about anywhere right now. So you lead, and I'll follow. Okay?